Elizabeth Rose Werner of Stanardsville, Va., is the recipient of Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Outstanding Senior Award for the 2003-2004 academic year. She is studying animal and poultry sciences.

The Virginia Tech Alumni Association and the senior class annually sponsor the Outstanding Senior Awards, which recognize exceptional performance by a graduating senior from each college within the university. Students and faculty of each of the eight colleges select the recipients. GPA’s of the awardees range between 3.75 and 4.0.

Virginia Tech is announcing its Outstanding Senior Awards in conjunction with the university’s Founders Day, Friday, April 23.

As a student in the University Honors Program, Werner has chosen to pursue a Health Scholars Concentration in which she spends 40 hours shadowing physicians. She is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society, the National Residence Hall Honorary, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Phi Eta Sigma.

Werner has been actively involved in several campus and community organizations with a primary emphasis on service to others. These include Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences, the Pre-Veterinary Club, Campus Crusade for Christ, and representing Shiffert Health Center as a Wellness Peer Educator.

Her service to others has extended far beyond the campus of Virginia Tech. Werner was a clinic nurse at the Charlottesville Free Clinic and the New River Valley Free Clinic. She regularly visits nursing homes and hospices to encourage and entertain residents. She also has been to Honduras and Haiti on medical missions.

“I have been blessed by the Lord with education, opportunities, talent, and supportive relationships, in order that I may be a blessing to other people,” Werner said.

Consistently ranked by the National Science Foundation among the top 10 institutions in agricultural research, Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences offers students the opportunity to learn from some of the world’s leading agricultural scientists. The college’s comprehensive curriculum gives students a balanced education that ranges from food and fiber production to economics to human health. The college is a national leader in incorporating technology, biotechnology, computer applications, and other recent scientific advances into its teaching program

Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, Virginia Tech has grown to become the largest university in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Today, Virginia Tech’s eight colleges are dedicated to putting knowledge to work through teaching, research, and outreach activities and to fulfilling its vision to be among the top 30 research universities in the nation. At its 2,600-acre main campus located in Blacksburg and other campus centers in Northern Virginia, Southwest Virginia, Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Roanoke, Virginia Tech enrolls more than 28,000 full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries in 170 academic degree programs.

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